Degenerative and Compressive Structural Disorders (29-Jan-2003)

In this chapter we will review a variety of neurological disorders that result from abnormalities of bones, ligaments, and other mesenchymal tissue that compress the nervous system. Most of these conditions are degenerative in nature, although some represent developmental disorders. The spinal cord and occasionally nerve roots are the nervous tissues most commonly compressed. One condition, disk disease, represents the most common cause of spinal cord compression in dogs.